User:Lara Rajeev

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Lara Rajeev (an artistic interpretation)

• Lara Rajeev
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Berkeley, CA, USA
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I work in the Mukhopadhyay group at LBNL.

Education

• Ph.D in Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec 2007
• M.S in Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jun 2005
• M.Sc in Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India, May 2003
• B.Sc in Microbiology, Sophia College, University of Mumbai, India, May 2001

Research interests

1. Interest 1
2. Interest 2
3. Interest 3

Publications

1. Rajeev, L., Malanowska, K., Gardner, J.F. (2009) Challenging a paradigm: the role of DNA homology in tyrosine recombinase reactions. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 73(2): 300-309
2. Rajeev, L., Segall A, Gardner, J.F. (2007) The Bacteroides NBU1 integrase performs a homology independent strand exchange to form a Holliday junction intermediate. J. Biol Chem 282: 31228-37
3. Rajeev, L., Salyers, A.A., Gardner, J.F. (2006) Characterization of the Integrase of NBU1, a Bacteroides mobilizable transposon. Mol Microbiol 61(4): 978-990
4. Schmidt, J.W., Rajeev, L., Salyers, A.A., Gardner, J.F. (2006) NBU1 Integrase: Evidence for an altered DNA recombination mechanism. Mol Microbiol 60 (1): 152-164

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